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Clio Barnard
Ciio Barnard's The Arbor
Clio was a Member of The Script Factory's Writers' Group in 2003/4. At that time she had a feature length drama, Sleepwalking, in development with FilmFour, and a feature script Rooftop in development with BBC Films and the Film Council’s New Cinema Fund. She also had a short film, Pacing, in pre-production.
Clio's previous short films have screened at international film festivals from Edinburgh to Berlin and Rotterdam, including: Hermaphrodite Bikini, part of a retrospective exhibition at Tate Britain, A Century of Artists’ Film and Video; Lambeth Marsh, which was based on a William Blake poem, shown at Tate Britain and broadcast on Channel Four; Random Acts of Intimacy (BFI New Directors ’98) which was screened on Channel Four and FilmFour; and Headcase (Arts Council England / Channel 4). Clio’s other work as a director includes title sequences, idents and promos for MTV, Channel Four and VH1, and a number of music videos. She has taught Film Theory at University of Kent at Canterbury and was Senior Lecturer in Time Based Media at Kent Institute of Art and Design. She graduated with a double first class (B.A. Hons) in Fine Art and then went on to study post-graduate Electronic Imaging where she made Dirt and Science which toured internationally as part of the ICA Biennial of Independent Film & Video, Between Imagination and Reality curated by Tilda Swinton. She also completed The Advanced Programme at the National Film and Television School.
Clio’s work is concerned with the relationship between fictional film language and documentary. She has often dislocated sound and image by constructing fictional images around verbatim audio. In her feature debut The Arbor (an Artangel commission) actors lip-synch to the voices of real people, questioning documentary’s aspiration to collapse the distance between reality and representation.
Barnard is also one of the winners of the Paul Hamlyn Award for Artists and, for The Arbor winner of the Best New Documentary Filmmaker award at the Tribeca Film Festival 2010.